FILMMAKING STUFF Tactics.

If you're seeking advice on how to fund, produce and sell your movie, these filmmaking articles will help you. You'll find that each article provides creative ideas and tips, with links to further information about filmmaking.

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Why Two Movies in One Day Is Good For Filmmakers

As we enter the remaining six months of 2011, I am trying very hard to do a little less grinding, and hopefully finding time to have a lot more fun…

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Filmmakers Alliance Recap

If you have seen me speak, you probably noticed that I use a lot of self-deprecating humor in my talks. For example, I usually talk about how bad my acting is, or how bad my movies are…

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How to sell nonsense in your screenplay

The key to movies like this is keeping things moving so the audience doesn't have time to think about it until afterward, and keeping the explanations short…

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Filmmaking Stuff on Kindle

If you have a Kindle, and enjoy reading filmmaking stuff – I wanted to let you know that you can now …

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What Screenwriters Can Learn From Documentary Filmmakers

I think what we can learn from documentary makers is to pause before we launch into the obvious story and dig deeper to see if there's a more interesting, perhaps more subtle, one lurking underneath…

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Untapped Crowdfunding Site For Filmmakers

As a filmmaker, one of the challenges you face is how to finance a film. When I was starting out, things were much different. Back then, if you wanted to finance a movie, you had to cross your fingers and wait for the gods to grant you permission…

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Tennessee Williams' advice to screenwriters

You don't really want totally arbitrary events in your script, but if you need to capture their attention, put it in and then in the next draft work your way backward in the story so it has some motivation…

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New Projects

I'm going to release a filmmaking book this summer. Read about it here…

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